The Geography of Money - Couverture souple

Cohen, Benjamin J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801485134 ISBN 13 : 9780801485138

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2000

Synopsis

The traditional assumption holds that the territory of money coincides precisely with the political frontiers of each nation state: France has the franc, the United Kingdom has the pound, the United States has the dollar. But the disparity between that simple mental landscape and the actual organization of currency spaces has grown in recent years, as territorial boundaries of individual states limit currency circulation less and less. Many currencies are used outside their "home" country for transactions either between nations or within foreign states. In this book, Benjamin J. Cohen asks what this new geography of money reveals about financial and political power. Cohen shows how recent changes in the geography of money challenge state sovereignty. He examines the role of money and the scope of cross-border currency competition in today's world. Drawing on new work in geography and network theory to explain the new spatial organization of monetary relations, Cohen suggests that international relations, political as well as economic, are being dramatically reshaped by the increasing interpenetration of national monetary spaces. This process, he explains, generates tensions and insecurities as well as opportunities for cooperation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Benjamin J. Cohen is Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of many other books, including The Future of Money, In Whose Interest? International Banking and American Foreign Policy and Organizing the World's Money: The Political Economy of International Monetary Relations.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801485134
• ISBN 13: 9780801485138
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible